Events
- January 2 - Dundalk, County Louth celebrates its 1200 year heritage.
- February 12 - Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane is shot dead by loyalists,
- March 21 - Three Irish soldiers on United Nations duty are killed in a landmine explosion in southern Lebanon.
- April 3 - Belfast-born Alex Higgins beats Stephen Hendry to win the British Benson and Hedges snooker championship.
- April 4 - The Windmill Lane Consortium says that if it gets the franchise it will be on the air within 9 to 12 months with its station TV3.
- June 16 - Ray McAnally, one of the country's most versatile actors, dies suddenly.
- June 22 - An order is signed creating the University of Limerick, the first university founded since the foundation of the state; later in the day Dublin City University is created.
- June 29 - Charles Haughey resigns as Taoiseach. He remains on in a caretaker capacity.
- August 19 - 10,000 people march from Dublin city centre to the British Embassy calling for British withdrawal from Northern Ireland.
- September 4 - Century Radio goes on the air for the first time.
- October 19 - Three of the Guildford Four are released in London. Paul Hill is immediately re-arrested.
- December 21 - Aer Rianta's 5,000,000th passenger is presented with a holiday to Florida.
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“All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
““The ideal reasoner,” he remarked, “would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.””
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